When asked if he thought Hamilton should have defended so hard, Whitmarsh said: “Clearly not, but you are dragging me into the conversation. In my mind, you saw him defend with [Romain] Grosjean and with [Kimi] Raikkonen, and he didn’t do anything different with Maldonado. It was a different outcome, but he didn’t do anything different with those drivers.”

“I don?óÔé¼Ôäót really know what happened if I?óÔé¼Ôäóm honest. I went in the corner and I didn?óÔé¼Ôäót come out. To be honest it happened so fast I really don?óÔé¼Ôäót remember what happened. All I remember is sitting in the wall with only a lap to go.”

“I think that we see form fluctuate from circuit to circuit, but we’ve had three poles in the last three races and that’s encouraging. We were in a commanding position here, tyre degradation looked very low and we were able to match that of our nearest rivals this weekend, and on that side it’s been positive.”

Luca di Montezemolo: “I saw all three champions of ‘my’ Ferrari hugging each other. Thinking back to so many amazing wins in these last 15 years and to the people who have contributed to that ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ from Michael to Kimi, from Todt to the other drivers, from the engineers to the mechanics ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ I was really touched.”

Comment of the day

It was first time since 2008 Brazilian GP since the driver won his home race. The longest such streak is between 1958 (won by Peter Collins) and 1962 British GPs (won by Jim Clark). Besides these two, the other time as there has been three years between two wins, is gap between 1995 European GP (Nurburgring, won by Schumacher) and 1999 British GP (won by Coulthard).

But then, nowadays we have a lot more races with no driver having home race. Since that Brazilian race, all Malaysian, Chinese, Bahrain, Monaco, Turkish, Canadian, Hungarian, Belgian, Singapore, Korean and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix have been held without a local driver with the exception of last year?óÔé¼Ôäós Belgian GP where Jerome d?óÔé¼ÔäóAmbrosio was driving (and no one was believing that he would win).Bleu